{"id":3571,"date":"2011-03-15T10:10:29","date_gmt":"2011-03-15T14:10:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencebusiness.technewslit.com\/?p=3571"},"modified":"2011-03-15T10:10:29","modified_gmt":"2011-03-15T14:10:29","slug":"companies-to-develop-renewable-chemistry-demo-facility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/?p=3571","title":{"rendered":"Companies to Develop Renewable Chemistry Demo Facility"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3574\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3574\" style=\"width: 267px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Corn_USDAgov.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3574\" title=\"Corn_USDAgov\" src=\"http:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Corn_USDAgov.jpg\" alt=\"Corn (USDA.gov)\" width=\"267\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Corn_USDAgov.jpg 267w, https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Corn_USDAgov-150x112.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 267px) 100vw, 267px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3574\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(USDA.gov)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Genomatica, a developer of chemicals from renewable feedstocks, and Tate &amp; Lyle, a provider of ingredients to the food and beverage industries <a href=\"http:\/\/www.genomatica.com\/news\/press-releases\/tate-lyle-partnership\/\">signed an agreement<\/a> for the demonstration-scale production of Genomatica&#8217;s Bio-BDO. The facility will be part of a Tate &amp; Lyle plant in Decatur, Illinois expected to begin fermentations in the second quarter of 2011.<\/p>\n<p>The chemical BDO (1,4-butanediol) is an intermediate product used to make spandex, automotive plastics, running shoes, and insulation. BDO is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chemicalland21.com\/industrialchem\/solalc\/1,4-BUTANEDIOL.htm\">normally produced<\/a> by reacting acetylene, made from oil or natural gas, with formaldehyde. Genomatica, which calls its product Bio-BDO,\u00a0 has developed a process for making the chemical with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.genomatica.com\/technology\/feedstocks\/\">cane and beet sugar and corn<\/a> as feedstocks.<\/p>\n<p>Under the agreement, Genomatica, based in San Diego, California,\u00a0 will use part of Tate &amp; Lyle&#8217;s Decatur plant for demonstration-scale production of the Bio-BDO process. The demonstration plant will be co-located with a corn wet mill owned and operated by Tate &amp; Lyle, which will provide the feedstock.<\/p>\n<p>The Bio-BDO produced at the demonstration facility will be used to make samples for marketing to potential manufacturers seeking sustainably-produced polymers and materials. Expansion and operation of the Tate &amp; Lyle demo facility are expected to create 25 jobs in Decatur.<\/p>\n<p>Read more:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/sciencebusiness.technewslit.com\/?p=2827\">Greener Process Developed for Producing Industrial Chemical<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">*\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 *\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 *<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Genomatica, a developer of chemicals from renewable feedstocks, and Tate &amp; Lyle, a provider of ingredients to the food and beverage industries signed an agreement for the demonstration-scale production of Genomatica&#8217;s Bio-BDO. The facility will be part of a Tate &amp; Lyle plant in Decatur, Illinois expected to begin fermentations in the second quarter of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[92,96,20,105],"class_list":["post-3571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ventures","tag-agriculture","tag-chemistry","tag-manufacturing","tag-physical-sciences"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3571"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3576,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3571\/revisions\/3576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}